SAN BERNARDINO – Jurors at the trial of two defendants accused of robbing and murdering a TV repairman in his home last year on Wednesday heard from two key witnesses.

Shawna Bayless, originally arrested as a third suspect in the slaying of John “Jack” Cone, testified in San Bernardino Superior Court that she was present for parts of the conversation in which defendants Laurie Cone and Gary Gallion discussed robbing her husband.

Bayless testified that Laurie Cone said her husband gave her nothing – not money, not even a change of clothes. Gallion then asked Cone if she wanted her husband robbed and the two started talking, Bayless testified.

Bayless said she walked in and out of the room while that conversation was going on and only heard “bits and pieces.”

But she testified that she heard Laurie Cone say there was a safe at her husband’s house that contained several thousand dollars and she was willing to split it with the two of them.

Bayless said she also heard Laurie Cone say please do not kill her husband.

Laurie Cone, 47, and Gary Gallion, 30, are accused of conspiring to rob and kill 64-year-old Jack Cone on April 2 at his home and workspace in the 2100 block of Sierra Way.

Cone and Gallion face a life sentence without the possibility of parole if convicted.

Bayless, who is currently in custody, took a plea bargain before a jury was selected and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, voluntary manslaughter and residential robbery.

As part of her plea deal, Bayless agreed to testify truthfully during the trial.

The night Jack Cone was killed, Bayless said, Gallion showed up at her house in a stolen truck containing guns, ammunition and laptops.

Bayless testified that she helped Gallion unload the weapons and hide them.

During cross examination, defense attorney James Gass pointed out that Bayless originally told police she did not know who Laurie Cone had hired to go into her husband’s house.

Also testifying Wednesday was Jackie Cone, the daughter of Laurie and Jack Cone, who was with her mother the night her father was killed.

She said her dad was feeling sick that night and she told him she loved him and kissed him on the cheek. He told her to close the door behind her and lock the gate, which Jackie Cone testified she did before her mother picked her up.

The two women then went to San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino and gambled for a few hours. At one point, Jackie Cone said, her mother got a call from Bayless.

Jackie Cone testified she was standing right next to her mother when the call came in.

The women left the casino and eventually went to Jack Cone’s house on Sierra way. Jackie Cone said she saw her father’s truck was missing and the gate she had locked was now open.

Laurie Cone went into the house, then came out and told her daughter to call 9-1-1.

Jackie Cone testified that she can’t remember whether her mother first mentioned her father or the missing guns. But she testified she was pretty sure her mother came out of the house and mentioned the guns before she talked about her father’s body.

Two days later, Jackie Cone said, her mother was arrested in connection with the death.

Jackie Cone testified she holds her mother responsible for the death.

“Look what happened. Look what she did. My dad didn’t deserve any of that,” Jackie Cone responded when defense lawyer Ed Congdon asked her about her mother.

Congdon asked Jackie Cone if she got anything out of her father’s death.

Jackie Cone testified she received her grandfather’s truck and money from the property after she sold it.